Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials

• The unique two part approach to covering both doctrinal and theoretical criminal law makes the texts appropriate across a wide range of levels and abilities.
• Having further reading and questions at the end of individual sections makes the text and its pedagogy more useful to students.
• User-friendly layout ensures that the text is intuitive to navigate and the various aspects distinguished.
• The structure is closely tailored to criminal law courses ensuring that this text provides all of the commentary and materials you will need to gain a comprehensive understanding of the topics.

New to this edition

• A discussion of the law on omissions after R v Evans
• Detailed examination of the new defence of loss of control
• A reworked chapter on the law of accessories
• The new law on diminished responsibility
• A new section on emotional harms
• Developments in the law on fraud
• Recent case law on self-defence

Readership: From the Text, Cases, and Materials series, this title is suitable for use on first courses on criminal law. It is also useful for those at a postgraduate level.

Jonathan Herring, Professor of Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford

Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford.

"What marks out Herring's text from much of the competition is a commitment to a socio-legal approach to the study of criminal law. In the reviewer's experience, the socio-legal perspective in Herring engages students in a way that books with a purely doctrinal approach often struggle to do." - Kevin J. Brown, Newcastle University, The Law Teacher, 2012

1: An introduction to criminal law
2: Actus reus: the conduct element
3: Mens rea: the mental element
4: Strict liability
5: Homicide
6: Non-fatal non-sexual offences against the person
7: Sexual offences
8: Theft, handling, and robbery
9: Fraud
10: Burglary and blackmail
11: Criminal damages
12: Defences
13: The criminal liability of corporations
14: Inchoate offences
15: Complicity